RE: Jaguar R Coupe!
Thursday 6th September 2001
Jaguar R Coupe!
Curves are back! Jaguar unveil new 'concept' car
Discussion
Oh yeah, forgot. The interior... those seats! Yuk, yuk and gaa gaa. Good job the transmission tunnel is so high - perhaps that to stop the thigh hugging seats (joke) from tipping you from driver's seat to passenger seat when you enter the first corner above 5mph! Christ, who designed them? Mr Ornamentalmorethanuseful.
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Anf the seats you can see are the back ones and it should have a six speed manual box in it 
Dont worry guys, I work for Jag, and that is not the design for the F-type (which is going to be mid engined), or the new XK8, both of thoes are going to be a quite a lot different, although the XK8 is probably going to take some of the styling ideas from it, possibly the grille, as the current front ends are a bit dated.
And the XKR-R has not died yet, there are still plans to make the supension, six speed box and LSD available as options in the future, not sure about the engine mods, but i think the exhaust and gorgeous carbon intake are being looked at as well.
and John$$ dont cancel the x-type just yet, the 3.0 sport is still a great car. And the Type R is due out in a couple of years, which should give the S4 a run for its money, and will have a 6 speed auto, and possibly manual, So all is not lost!
Some very american design influences here. General reactions in the office were not favourable. The rear especially is clumsy. And now they're going to mess with the F-type which won massive adoration by the public in its original form. So why change it? I'd already begun negotiating with the wife - then I saw the latest drawings - maybe not then.
Too true about the American influence. This means they'll undoubtedly put a slushmatic in it, make the V8 sound like a 1.4 and make it weigh 2.5 tonnes. From personal experience, the XK8 looks great but is the worse drivers car I have ever owned. Still, it had a valet parking button! When will we stop trying to turn great cars into fat wobble wagons to suit Americans!? 
quote:Exactly, I remember seeing it at last year’s motor show and it was a quite stunning piece of design work, clearly the screen couldn't work on a road car but what the heck! The artists renderings in last weeks magazines were awful, the nose looked like every other schoolboy's drawing of a 50's racer, the tail looked like a barge and what on earth was going on with the wheel arch flares? Sorry Eddy but I don't get it, why take a fantastic design like that and ruin it? Sadly it looks like Jaguar just want another “Me too” Porsche Boxter rival… a Joxter perhaps? Rich…
And now they're going to mess with the F-type which won massive adoration by the public in its original form. So why change it?
There were lots of resons for the change in the F-Type design, mainly powertrain packaging and regulation reasons (the windscreen wouldnt pass 2005 crash regs). Also the design team thought the styling was too retro. thats just politics as it was styled by the late Geoff Lawson, and the new guy wanted to do his own design.
Shame as it is one of the most gorgeous designs ever, on of the reasons i joined the company. But the new mid engine design is meant to be pretty decent and nothing like the press sketches, a lot more agressive i have been told, to compete with the Boxster and TVR. You will just have to wait a couple of years to see it!
The slush box issue is being looked into, but dont moan too much, as thats my department, but i take the point. The new 6 speed autos for the next generation cars are pretty good, and there are manuals in the pipeline, but unluckily autos are what most people want, so thats what we sell, you just have to shout louder.
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